You're a couple of years out, I joined in March 2009, the week of the big Erlang post push to dissuade all the new posters where eventually pg asked everyone to

You're a couple of years out, I joined in March 2009, the week of the big Erlang post push to dissuade all the new posters where eventually pg asked everyone to stop posting Erlang items: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 I think that was the beginning of the eternal september. I think I found it via a mention on Coding Horror. From my perspective, HN is now much more developer centric and less startup centric, and my impression is the change started happening pretty much when product hunt launched. These days you rarely see a show on the front page and there are a lot less business-y startup articles, at least during EU hours. Like, right now, I would say there isn't a single startup article on the front page, where it used to be 40/40/20 dev/startup/random interesting stuff, it's now more like 75/5/20. You get a lot more startup content by looking on Ask HN than by looking at the front page.